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en-usCopyright (c) 2019 Public AddressPublic Addresshttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372614#post372614
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372614#post372614Discussion from blog post.
]]>Wed, 03 May 2017 15:50:44 +1200Rich of Observationzhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372615#post372615
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372615#post372615Wed, 03 May 2017 15:50:44 +1200andrew rhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372616#post372616
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372616#post372616What's a hippy? Is that a Dad rock thing? Labour seem very politically shy on this issue. It really is time to make the law match the populace view. So slow coming.
]]>Wed, 03 May 2017 16:32:14 +1200Russell Brownhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372617#post372617
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372617#post372617What’s a hippy? Is that a Dad rock thing?

You got it. Man.

Labour seem very politically shy on this issue. It really is time to make the law match the populace view. So slow coming.

Two things behind it:

1. A conservative political strategy in election year. They’re happy…

]]>Wed, 03 May 2017 16:52:03 +1200andinhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372618#post372618
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372618#post372618who are extremely anxious about being seen as the crazy druggie party. HAHAAnd those who aren't on drugs aren't crazy? One look around the world would dispel that myth.
]]>Wed, 03 May 2017 17:07:36 +1200Sachahttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372621#post372621
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372621#post372621Wed, 03 May 2017 20:18:40 +1200dave stewarthttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372623#post372623
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372623#post372623Wed, 03 May 2017 21:31:09 +1200dave stewarthttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372624#post372624
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372624#post372624Found it: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/201839295/mps-asked-to-take-over-medicinal-cannabis-fightAt about 3.07, figure quoted $130M per year.
]]>Wed, 03 May 2017 22:03:05 +1200Katharine Moodyhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372626#post372626
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372626#post372626Life of Its Own: The Truth about Medical Marijuana on Choice TV on Sunday, converted my super-straight, conservative, pensioner partner :-). He became a conspiracy theorist at the same time, certain that US pharma was behind the suppression of all the product research and expertise on it in Israel.

Of…

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 00:07:39 +1200Katharine Moodyhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372627#post372627
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372627#post372627Thu, 04 May 2017 00:08:58 +1200steven crawfordhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372629#post372629
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372629#post372629And what about the economic angle? I tuned into a RNZ Checkpoint discussion a few weeks ago where the view was expressed that substituting existing opiate-based pain relief medications prescribed for chronic/terminal patients for medicinal marijuana could save Pharmac in the order of hundreds of millions per year.

That’s just…

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 08:01:10 +1200Joe Wyliehttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372630#post372630
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372630#post372630These are completely different substances that do entirely different things to human beings. Its just as good to argue that a shot of whisky would do the trick at a car accident. One of the striking things about accounts of 18th and 19th Century medicine is the widespread use of…
]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 08:44:22 +1200Katharine Moodyhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372631#post372631
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372631#post372631The best case for medical marijuana that I’ve seen, is in California. It’s better to just allow people who want to use it, to use it, just as long as they know the side effects. And just like any medication, there are side effects.

That's where the doco on Choice…

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 09:36:25 +1200Russell Brownhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372632#post372632
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372632#post372632That’s just magic thinking. These are completely different substances that do entirely different things to human beings.

Its just as good to argue that a shot of whisky would do the trick at a car accident.

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 10:13:24 +1200Russell Brownhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372635#post372635
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372635#post372635The best case for medical marijuana that I’ve seen, is in California. It’s better to just allow people who want to use it, to use it, just as long as they know the side effects. And just like any medication, there are side effects.

I think there are problems with…

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 10:21:18 +1200Russell Brownhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372636#post372636
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372636#post372636Oh, and here's A life of its own: The truth about medical marijuana, which screened on Choice on Sunday night.

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 10:51:30 +1200Ian Dalzielhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372638#post372638
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372638#post372638a cultural aside: (from The Secret Life of Books )John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey's autobiographical classic Confessions of an English Opium Eaterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNc3tP52lKI
]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 11:04:05 +1200steven crawfordhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372641#post372641
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372641#post372641I think there are problems with very loose medical regimes. I found the episode of Weediquette looking at parents in Oregon who give their cancer-stricken kids massive doses of THC oil – on a very flimsy basis – a bit troubling.

Yes, I agree and that's why I prefer the Colorado model over the California one. Decriminalisation (largely for medicinal purposes) is a Clayton's form of reform. From what I can gather from the doco Druglawed it simply became the evil weed…

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 14:55:15 +1200Rich of Observationzhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372644#post372644
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372644#post372644the widespread use of alcohol [in the 19th century] ... for a whole host of ailments

They knew almost nothing about physiology or biochemistry, and nearly everything they did know was wrong.

Consequently, anything that produced an effect, any effect, was a drug candidate. Alcohol is an anaesthetic, an emetic,…

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 15:30:51 +1200Russell Brownhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372645#post372645
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372645#post372645Yes, I agree and that’s why I prefer the Colorado model over the California one.

Colorado’s robust medical system is one reason its broader legalisation has worked so well. The METRC “seed-to-sale” system came from its medical regime – it began with bar codes and now uses RFID tags.

On…

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 16:25:57 +1200steven crawfordhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372646#post372646
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372646#post372646Better it becomes a legal substance, regulated like alcohol – as to me it is a more honest (and sensible) approach.

disclaimer: I’m not a great fan of the current alcohol regulations, particularly the way it’s allowed to be advertised. While marijuana is reasonably benign, like alcohol, it can be…

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 22:32:57 +1200BenWilsonhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372648#post372648
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372648#post372648There’s another reason we need to be talking about this more seriously. And that’s that cannabis is everywhere. It’s in the culture in a way it has not been before.

It's high time.

]]>Fri, 05 May 2017 00:27:38 +1200william blakehttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372665#post372665
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372665#post372665I'm not buying the binary; legalise pot so we can concentrate criminal efforts on P.So cannabis is everywhere but you can't buy it at a tinny house, eh? I suspect pot is a musohippy thing and P is a fuckitgenrent thing. I would be following the drug foundations approach…
]]>Fri, 05 May 2017 16:15:21 +1200mark taslovhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372669#post372669
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372669#post3726692. The genuinely-held views of Andrew Little – who’s not exactly up with the research

Which raises alarm bells for those hoping to change the Government to a group whose policies – one hopes – are more evidence based (across the board) than the current lot.

For sure. There's an obvious high-value industry waiting to take advantage of…

]]>Sun, 07 May 2017 21:29:30 +1200Rosemary McDonaldhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372690#post372690
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372690#post372690She cant seriously think said family would be a functional unit with no issues if all the Cannabis magically dissapeared?

My other half and I were listening to your story on the radio the other day as I was putting him to bed, and wondering how best to source a…

]]>Sun, 07 May 2017 21:36:59 +1200steven crawfordhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372691#post372691
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372691#post372691For sure. There’s an obvious high-value industry waiting to take advantage of great growing conditions and knowledge plus sci-tech institutions. Imagine what growers and scientists in regions like Northland and East Cape could export with the right govt support?

Sorry, it’s hard to understand why Northland and East Cape would…

]]>Sun, 07 May 2017 22:05:11 +1200Worik Stantonhttps://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372698#post372698
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-media-take-we-need-to-talk-about/?p=372698#post372698Congratulations Russell Brown for your good work around drugs. Drug users are vilified and patronised everywhere else I go.